East Side Story: Growing Up at the Pne by Marino, Nick
East Side Story: Growing Up at the Pne by Marino, Nick

East Side Story: Growing Up at the Pne

A sly, sentimental, and wickedly funny memoir about growing up at the local fair.The PNE (Pacific National...
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Author: Nick Marino
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Language: English
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East Side Story: Growing Up at the Pne by Marino, Nick

East Side Story: Growing Up at the Pne

$42.93
East Side Story: Growing Up at the Pne by Marino, Nick

East Side Story: Growing Up at the Pne

$42.93
Author: Nick Marino
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

A sly, sentimental, and wickedly funny memoir about growing up at the local fair.

The PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) is a Vancouver tradition, an annual fair started in 1910 that is famous for its farm animals, dog trick shows, and amusement park highlighted by Canada's oldest wooden roller coaster still in existence. In 1980, when Nick Marino was twelve years old, he started working at the PNE and quickly learned that there was more to the fair than winning stuffed animals and eating mini donuts. He had to contend with belligerent bosses, unhinged carnies, and teenage hustlers. In this funny, charming memoir of fair life, Marino revisits the "wild west" of the city's East Side, home to the PNE, sharing stories from his six summers working at the fair, where arcade bouncers went on midnight roller coaster rides, riots broke out at concerts, and local kids helped themselves to everything. With beguiling and at times poignant humor, he pulls back the curtain on the culture of carnivals and fairs, an unpredictable and eternally young world of players, scammers, and dreamers.

East Side Story is the latest addition to the Robin's Egg Books series, which features some of the freshest, smartest, and above all, funniest writing on a variety of culturally relevant subjects. Titles in the imprint are curated and edited by comedian, playwright, and author Charles Demers.



Author: Nick Marino
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 11/07/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781551529332


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/25/2023

About the Author
Nick Marino is a writer, comedian, and teacher from Vancouver, Canada. He has performed at Just for Laughs Northwest and curated a series of comedy and music shows called Bite of the Underground.
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